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On The Gersten-Witt Complex of an Azumaya Algebra with Involution

Algebraic Geometry 2022-02-01 v2 K-Theory and Homology Number Theory

Abstract

Let (A,σ)(A,\sigma) be an Azumaya algebra with involution over a regular ring RR. We prove that the Gersten-Witt complex of (A,σ)(A,\sigma) defined by Gille is isomorphic to the Gersten-Witt complex of (A,σ)(A,\sigma) defined by Bayer-Fluckiger, Parimala and the author. Advantages of both constructions are used to show that the Gersten-Witt complex is exact when dimR3\dim R\leq 3, indA2\mathrm{ind}\, A\leq 2 and σ\sigma is orthogonal or symplectic. This means that the Grothendieck-Serre conjecture holds for the group RR-scheme of σ\sigma-unitary elements in AA under the same hypotheses; RR is not required to contain a field.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06264,
  title  = {On The Gersten-Witt Complex of an Azumaya Algebra with Involution},
  author = {Uriya A. First},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06264},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

26 pages. Changes from previous version: Section 7 rewritten, added section 2C, some typos fixed. The source files include an extra pdf with details of suppressed straightforward computations. [An earlier version used to be the appendix of arXiv:1911.07666v1 (which was removed in arXiv:1911.07666v2).]